The Head of the municipality
Nikolay Nikolayevich Kharyuchi
telephone (34940) 2-10-51,
e-mail: adm89t010@tazovsky.ru

The municipality administration site:tasu.ru

Tazovsky region is a part of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District and is the biggest region in the area. It is situated within the Polar circle, to the right of the Obskaya Bay, sprawling by 750 kilometers from north to south and by up to 300 kilometers from west to east. A big part of the region is situated on the Gydanskiy Peninsula. The region covers 174,300 square kilometers. The key water arteries of the region are the Obskaya, Tazovskaya, and Gydanskaya Bays, the Taz and the Pur rivers. Navigation on them lasts from the middle of July to the middle of September. The largest rivers of the region are the Taz, the Tanama, the Messoyakha, and the Yuribey. In the region there are over 18,000 lakes.

On the east the region borders with Krasnoyarsk Territory, on the south - with Krasnoselkupsky, Purovsky, and Nadymsky regions, from the west and the north it is washed by the Obskaya Bay and the Kara Sea.

The regional center is the township of Tazovsky, situated 200 kilometers north of the Polar circle.

On the territory of the region there are 11 settlements, 5 administrative-territorial entities: the townships of Tazovsky, Antipayuta, Gaz-Sale, Gyda, Nakhodka.

The distance to the district center - the city of Salekhard - is 986 kilometers by water, and 552 kilometers by air, to the region center - Tyumen - 2,755 kilometers by water, and 1,341 kilometers by air. The closest railway station is in Korochayevo - 180 kilometers.

The area is poorly populated. The number of the population in the area as of January 01, 2003, is 15,772 people.

By village Soviets, that makes in:

- Antipayutinsky - 2,578 people (including the Nenets - 2,141);
- Gaz-Salinsky - 2,089 people (including the Nenets - 92);
- Gydansky - 3,184 people (including the Nenets - 2,908);
- Nakhodkinsky - 1,182 people (including the Nenets - 1,150);
In Tazovsky township Soviet there are 778 people (including the Nenets - 778), in the industrial community of Tazovsky - 5,961 people.

The number of nomadic population, by village Soviets as of January 01, 2003, is:

- Antipayutinsky - 603 people (198 households);
- Gydansky - 977 people (344 households);
- Nakhodkinsky - 354 people (99 households);
Also, in Tazovsky township Soviet - 208 people (109 households).

The population density is - 0.1 person per 1 square kilometer. There are 36 nationalities and peoples, the largest of them are indigenous peoples of the north - the Nenets, the number of which is 7,069 people. A large part of indigenous population roam round Gydanskiy Peninsula all year round together with their numerous herds of deers.

The first record about the territory being a part of the present district is found in the chronicle of year 1096, known as 'The Russian Primary Chronicle'. The discovery of the Obskaya and Tazovskaya Bays by the Russians is dated by the time of flowering of Great Novgorod - by the eleventh-twelfth centuries.

On the old maps by Isaac Massa (the year of 1612), Fyodor Godunov (1614), Nikolay Vitsen (1687) there are indicated both the Tazovskaya Bay and Gydanskiy Peninsula.

The exploration of the district started in the sixteenth century after Yermak's marches. In 1601 a Russian town was settled on the left bank of the River Taz. After the name of the area it was called Mangazeya. The area was, probably from the fifteenth century, inhabited by Enetskoye tribe Monkasi, the name of which was also adopted by the territory belonging to it (Monkasi Ya - the Land of Monkasi).

According to the information from trade and industrial contemporaries, they traveled by sea from Arkhangelsk township to the Kara Bay with various German goods and bread supplies. Then, they got to the Obskaya Bay by carry, sailed by the Tazovskaya Bay to the River Taz, and by the River Taz to the town. By 1610 Mangazeya numbered up to 200 houses, 20 stores, 2 churches, 3 pubs, a powder magazine and a wine vault. The town stretched along the bank of the Taz by 270 meters. Its square was about 3.1 ha. In 1616, with the tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov, Yamalian Route was banned under penalty of death sentence. The ban on using this route via Yamalian portage, and a number of other dramatic events in Mangazeya, for example, the fire in 1619 and raids of Samoyeds standing against violence brought the town to decline and death. In 1672 Mangazeya, renamed into New Mangazeya, was moved to the mouth of the River Turukhan. Thus, in 1672 a trade Russian outpost vanished from the lower course of the Taz. For some time, the connection between European North and this part of Siberia was lost.

In the 50s of the nineteenth century the basin of the Taz and the Pura was under the influence of Surgut merchants. They started their business here and encouraged local tribes in commercial fishery.

In 1883 a trade company consisting of Siberian entrepreneurs Funk, Murzeyn, and a shipwright Yacov Vardropper, based a trading station in the mouth of the Tazovskaya Bay in the area named Khalmer-Sede, which means in German 'the tuffet of the dead'. On the high left bank of the Taz, 12 kilometers from its mouth, where had used to be boxes with the deceased, a bakery, an apartment house, an office, and storehouses were built. From 1884 the company started fishing in the lower course of the river Taz and in the Tazovskaya Bay. The fishing was organized with local Samoyeds as fishermen. It was served by steam schooners 'Margarita', carrying capacity up to 160 tons, and 'North', carrying capacity up to 50 tons. Trading here in those times was mainly of exchange nature. In 'The Review of Tobolsk Province' dated 1892 year they said, 'In the areas to the north of Obdorsk, in the Tazovskaya Bay, money is yet almost unknown, the key exchange units up to now have been a pood of salmon and squirrel skins.'

However, 'displeased with the competition, Obdorsk merchants turned with a petition to the local authorities to prohibit sailing to Mangazeya (it meant all the lower course of the Taz - V.N.Gritsenko). The assistant of ispravnik (head of local police) Tsimmerman, provided with merchants' grant, personally arrived at the trading station Khalmer-Sede in 1888 and bought it. Until 1891 sailing to the Tazovskaya Bay was forbidden. Later, visitors became more frequent, but those were mainly individuals' (I.N.Shukhov, 1943).

'In 1910 Nizhne-Obskoye joint-stock company was organized, joining Berzin, Dzirne, Dzhems, and Vardropper. The key work was concentrated in Tazovsky region, where trading stations were launched in Khalmer-Sede, Ivay-Sale, and Yambur-Sale' (I.G.Yudanov, 1935).

By 1912 fishing trade rose to a large scale. The area was under control of the biggest fishery manager represented by Trading House of the Plotnikovs, being in charge of steam navigation on the Ob and the Irtysh as well.

'Not earlier than the emergence of Nizhne-Obskoye joint-stock company and Trading House of the Plotnikovs in Taz that the price on fish and furs doubled and even trebled, prices on bread, sugar and other imported goods fell twice and three times, if not more' (A.Bushevich 'A Tour To the Obskaya Bay in Summer of 1913').

The first Soviet trading station appeared in Taz in 1920.

The official papers start mentioning the trading station Khalmer-Sede from June 1921 as an affiliate of Obtrest (later - an affiliate of Tobolsk office of Gostorg). The station moved to the nationalized fishery office of the merchants Plotnikovs. By the end of the 20s of the twentieth century a great number of buildings left from the Plotnikovy and Nizhne-Obskoye joint-stock company came to be used by Obtrest. It possessed a bakery, a repair shop for a boat, incidentally wintering here, living quarters, and a storehouse. In 1928 seven new premises emerged here: three storehouses and four living ones. The trading station was headed by a Bolshevik A.A.Protopopov.

Until 1923 the territory of the present area was a part of Yenisseyskaya province, and in 1923 it joined Uralskaya province. Since December 1930 it has been a part of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District.

On December 10, 1930, All-Russia General Executive Committee of RSFSR took a decision to organize Yamal (Nenets) national district as a part of Uralskaya region, the township of Obdorskoye being its center. At the same time, zoning of the area was started. In particular, Tazovsky region with Khalmer-Sede as its center was singled out. In the region 2 village soviets were organized: Tazovsko-Purovsky and Verkhnepurovsky. Following the formation of Purovsky region in 1932, a part of Tazovsky region was appended to it. The village Soviets existing at the time were reorganized.

The district came to have two village Soviets: Gydoyamsky and Tazovsky.

In 1934 Antipayuta trading station was organized - with an apartment house, a store, a bath-house, and a storehouse.

In 1935 there were already 8 kolkhozes in the region. The growth of deer livestock in basic production enterprises (i.e. kolkhozes) was faster than on individual farms. A few kolkhozes were formed: 'Red North', Lenin kolkhoz (Khalmer-Sede), 'Lenin's Ways', 'Red Moscow' (Nakhodka).

During the last peace year in the region there were 23 small collective farms, four of which had common herds of deers.

The news of treacherous aggression of Germany against the Soviet Union reached Khalmer-Sede behind time: the connection was bad; planes were not up yet because of spring unpredictable weather. In August 1941 were created defense stocks, squads of rear militia.

In 1941 Tazovsky fishery cooperative society and a communication office were opened.

In August 1942 the construction of the Northern Fish Plant started in Antipayuta, which yet manufactured production the following year.

In 1943 Tazovsky Tinned Food Factory was launched, which, if fully equipped, could manufacture 15,000 standard cans per day. The number of new fisheries increased greatly, as well as the number of fishing gears.

In 1943 in Tazovsky region they started flights on planes like G-1, PO-2, SHA-2 in winter and a 'flying boat' MBR-2 in summer. The flight from Salekhard to Khalmer-Sede took two days. The airport belonged to the Administration of Polar Aviation of Igarskaya Independent Air Group of the HQ of the Northern Sea Route of USSR. Staff - 5 employees. The head of the airport - V. Balashov. The construction of the airport and a radio communications center started.

In 1945 a department of cultural-enlightenment work under the district executive committee was formed.

On the basis of Decree of the Supreme Soviet of RSFSR d/d February 01, 1949, the region center Khalmer-Sede was renamed into Tazovskoye.

Regular flights of planes Sio - 47, Li -2 began, in summer - 'the flying boat' Katalina.

In the 50s planes Li-2 started flying to Gyda, Antipayuta, Khalmer-Yakha, and Nakhodka; Gydansky fishery cooperative society was set up, as well as Tazovsky joint district military commissariat. A comfortable motor vessel Mechanic Kalashnikov set out onto the transpolar river route Salekhard - Novy Port - Tazovsky.

In 1961 the first troop of exploration geologists landed on the area of the present township Gaz-Sale, an intensive drilling of exploration hole #1 started; on September 27, 1962, the hole gave the first gas thanks to the team of foreman N.I.Ryndin.

On July 6, 1963, Tazovskaya deep oil exploration drilling expedition was formed in the township of Gaz-Sale.

On November 30 gas was obtained from the hole #2; Tazovskoye deposit was opened.

In the second part of the 60s the following significant events happened in the region: Zaapolyarnoye and Russkoye deposits were opened, gas pipeline Gaz-Sale - Tazovsky was commissioned;

On August 15, 1969, Yamburgskoye gas-condensate deposit was opened.

For Tazovsky region the 70s were marked with a chain of discoveries by Tazovskaya oil-and-gas exploration expedition: Yurkharovskoye, Nakhodkinskoye, Severo-Urengoyskoye, gas-condensate deposits, also Antipayutinskoye gas deposit.

According to the decision by Tyumen Executive Committee d/d February 28, 1975, Gaz-Sale village Soviet was formed; they started television broadcasting throughout the region; the first two helicopters Mi-8 landed on the helicopter deck.

In the 80s the arrangement of Yambourg deposit started.

In the 90s Tazovsky region formed its administration; Nikolay Nikolayevich Kharyuchi was appointed as its Head;

On March 16, 1997, the first elections of the Head of Tazovsky region and the deputies of the Representatives Assembly of Tazovsky region took place. N.N. Kharyuchi was elected as its Head; the Representatives Assembly included 11 elected deputies.

On June 11, 1997, the Code of Tazovsky region Municipality was passed. The Representatives Assembly took a decision to declare 11 June as the Day of the Municipality of Tazovsky region.